Isaiah Dunn CLAWSON

(1822-1879)

CLAWSON, Isaiah Dunn, a
Representative from New Jersey; born in Woodstown, Salem County,
N.J., March 30, 1822; attended Delaware College, Newark, Del., and
Lafayette College, Easton, Pa.; was graduated from Princeton
College in 1840 and from the medical department of the University
of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia in 1843; commenced the practice of
medicine in Woodstown, N.J.; member of the State house of assembly
in 1854; elected as an Opposition Party candidate to the
Thirty-fourth Congress and reelected as a Republican to the
Thirty-fifth Congress (March 4, 1855-March 3, 1859); was not a
candidate for renomination in 1858; resumed the practice of
medicine in Woodstown, N.J., where he died on October 9, 1879;
interment in the Baptist Cemetery.

Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present